The Benandanti
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week, Julia decided to give us all a history lesson. We’re talking about The Benandanti - a group of witches from Northern Italy. We’ve got fennel stalks, we’ve got primary source accounts, and we’ve got discussions about how you can make your community just a little bit better.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:04.4 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:08.6 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:09.8 | And this is episode 11, the Benadante. |
| 0:12.6 | Yeah, I'm so excited. |
| 0:14.4 | You'll see why I'm excited once you get into the episode, but this is a topic that I kind of rediscovered in my own life and I'm excited to teach you all about it. |
| 0:24.8 | Yes, this was super fun for me. |
| 0:26.9 | It reminded me of one of my favorite books that I've read in recent memory and I had really fucked up dreams the night after we recorded it. |
| 0:34.2 | So, you know, it's a great episode of spirits. |
| 0:37.1 | It's only a good episode of spirits |
| 0:38.8 | if you have nightmares afterwards. That's very true. But you know who's exempt from nightmares? |
| 0:43.5 | Is it our new patrons? Yeah, Rebecca, Haley, and Gemma, welcome. I'm so glad that you got the |
| 0:48.6 | protective charms that we sent. And our supporting level producers, Philip, Eeyore, Vinnie, Danica, |
| 0:59.0 | Marissa, Sammy, Josie, Amara, Neil, Jessica, Phil Frush, and Deborah. |
| 1:14.4 | And they have great dreams. But you know who has amazing dreams? That would be our legend level patrons. Jordan, Jess, Sarah, Zoe, Sandra, Audra, Mercedes, Jack Marie, and Leanne. Heck yeah. There's just like always cute animal human hybrids, if that's what you're into. And just like really good food, but not |
| 1:22.0 | like underworld food or fay food that makes you live there. Just like good food in your dreams. |
| 1:27.1 | Lots of fennel. |
| 1:28.7 | You'll see why that's funny. |
| 1:29.8 | You'll get it. |
| 1:30.2 | You'll get it. |
| 1:31.1 | You'll get it. |
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